Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7474
רַעְיָה
rayahrah-yaw'
darling
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: raʻyâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7474is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7474
a female associate
The King James renders it: fellow, love.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
rayah is rendered "darling". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Nine of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Song of Solomon 1:9I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
Song of Solomon 1:9רַעְיָתִֽי׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's nine uses are in Song of Solomon.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- O friend my7
- friend my2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- רַעְיָתִי֙3
- רַעְיָתִ֔י2
- רַעְיָתִ֥י2
- רַעְיָתִ֖י1
- רַעְיָתִֽי׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular9HNcfsc/Sp1bs
Song of Solomon
nine uses
I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
- רַעְיָתִֽי׃ra'yatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O friend my
How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.
- רַעְיָתִ֔יra'yatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O friend my
Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens.
- רַעְיָתִ֖יra'yatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: friend my
My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
- רַעְיָתִ֥יra'yatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O friend my
The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”
- רַעְיָתִ֥יra'yatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O friend my
How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
- רַעְיָתִי֙ra'yatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O friend my
You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.
- רַעְיָתִ֔יra'yatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O friend my
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
- רַעְיָתִי֙ra'yatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: friend my
You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.
- רַעְיָתִי֙ra'yatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O friend my
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.